Patriot joins the high-end storage fray with its first NVMe SSD, the Hellfire series. We run the 480GB version of this drive through our testing gauntlet to see whether it can keep up with the rest of the NVMe crowd.

The fun thing is that I haven’t moved the drives over from my old rig yet, so right now I have a terabyte of storage and no “drives” hooked into the motherboard at all, just this tiny little M.2 board.

Gonna move over my old SSDs to hold games (X-Plane 11 with photoscenery is huuuuuge) and a 4TB data drive, and keep the other M.2 slot open for now to see what happens with Optane.

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My case fan blows directly over my M.2 and the airflow in my PC is the best of any PC I’ve ever built since I used the Corsair 540. The side with the components is super-neat. I was going to tidy up the side with the cables and power supply but realized there was no reason to – just sealed it up and left it looking like my teenager’s room. :) Cable ties would just make later adjustments and upgrades a pain.

M.2 storage devices use a much smaller form factor and can reach incredible speeds which make SATA drives seem extremely outdated. NVMe solutions are capable of read rates beyond 2000MB/s and offer incredible performance. As a result, many high-end...

Probably overkill though and i don’t plan to use a custom loop anyway.

M.2 drives like the Samsung 950 Pro can give incredible performance, but they can sometimes run hot enough that the drive needs to throttle the performance to stay under safe temperatures. To help you decide if it is something you need to worry...

A lot of our test results really surprised us. We knew that M.2 drives would throttle if they got too hot, but we didn’t know that we could cause it to happen so quickly or quite to the extent we measure

Slapping a cheap (thin) thermal adhesive heatsink on them is easy, inexpensive, and almost completely removes all throttling from the picture except for pathological torture test cases.

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Worst case scenario it throttled after >10 continuous seconds of random writes at 400MB/sec. Unless you run a production database under heavy transactional load on your desktop with poor case ventilation and somehow also locate the SSD under your GPU that’s being blasted at 100% load, that simply isn’t a concern.